Drug War Chronicle

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Between now and the seating of a new Congress after the 2012 elections, drug reform is going to be a tough slog on Capitol Hill. But that doesn't mean reformers are going away, or that there aren't battles to be fought and won.

The Hawaii teachers' union has finally, definitively fended off state demands that it accept random suspicionless drug testing of teachers.

The new Humala government in Peru sought coca grower support by promising to end forced eradication, and now the growers are holding the government to its word.

Events and quotes of note from this week's drug policy events of years past.

The Drug Policy Alliance is hiring for two high-level positions in its NYC headquarters.

A dirty Chicago cop goes to prison, a crooked small-town New York officer faces the same fate, a Florida cop facing trial for peddling meth has gone on the lam, and four suburban Chicago cops are being sued.

Every two years drug policy reformers from across the United States and around the world come to the International Drug Policy Reform Conference to listen, learn, network and strategize together for change. This year the conference is in Los Angeles, in November, and StoptheDrugWar.org is a partner.

A bill to allow a four-county, eight-year pilot project for industrial hemp production has passed the California legislature and awaits Gov. Jerry Brown's signature.

A Missouri technical college is the first public college in the country to demand mandatory suspicionless drug testing of students, and it will likely be the first in the country to be sued for it too.